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Impact of Impact Factor in quantifying the quality of scientific research

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Title Impact of Impact Factor in quantifying the quality of scientific research
 
Creator Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject impact factor
 
Description The first science journal was published
in 1662 by the Royal Society of London
in the name Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society. Since then, there
has been a dramatic increase in the number of scientific journals, particularly
after Second World War, which reinstated the necessity of some scale to
measure the standard of these journals.
In 1927, the method of counting citations
of the published articles to rank journals
was introduced 1, which was later on improved as Science Citation Index (SCI)
by the Institute of Scientific Information
(ISI) 2. Funded by the National Institutes
of Health and National Science Foundation, ISI undertook the citation indexing
project for Genetics Study Section in
1961. The Genetic Citation Index covered 613 journals and indexed them
based on three metrics namely, number
of citations in 1 year, number of citations
in 5 years and number of citations in 14
years 3. In 1963, the SCI included a new
metric termed ‘Impact Factor’, which is
still being used as a standard bibliometric
indicator for identifying quality journals.
Later on, SCI was renamed as Journal
Citation Reports (JCR) and since 1975, it
is being published annually, offering a
systematic and objective means to evaluate the journals. The ISI was acquired by
Thomson Corporation in 1992, which
then took over Reuters in 2008 to form
Thomson Reuters, and publishes JCR in
two editions, viz. science and social science. The JCR Science Edition contains
data from over 8,000 journals in 171 subject categories whereas the Social Sciences Edition covers more than 2,900
journals in 55 subject categories
M. Muthamilarasan acknowledges the University Grants
Commission of providing Junior Research
Fellowship. We thank Dr Debasis Chattopadhyay, NIPGR for his valuable suggestions.
 
Date 2015-12-21T06:36:27Z
2015-12-21T06:36:27Z
2014
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Current Science, 107(8): 1233-1234
0011-3891
http://172.16.0.77:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/437
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/php/toc.php?vol=107&issue=08
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Indian Academy of Sciences